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Reporter @TheAthleticFC . Sports Journalist of the Year, 2023, awarded by @SportSJA . Newly based in NYC.🏳️🌈
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🚨Emails obtained by
@TheAthleticFC
sent by U.K. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia say that in a conversation with UK Foreign Office official, Premier League “had agreed to settle differences” with PIF so Newcastle takeover could “go ahead”
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To look at a statue of… Toni Kroos?
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Employees get to work for 9am 😮😮😮
🔴⚽️ Erik ten Hag had all players report into training by 9am.
🔥 ten Hag setting his standards early at MUFC.
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Why is this man anywhere near this stuff?
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This isn’t how contracts work
🚨🚨| Frenkie De Jong's salary next season will be €22M. FC Barcelona have told him to either reduce it by 50% or leave. There is no way he stays, without a reduction.
@sport
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Chelsea putting the Instagram handle of a player who has not yet signed for the club into their Instagram bio is one of the oddest things I can recall on social media by a football club?
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Increasingly feel like my adulthood supporting Man Utd is retribution for my childhood supporting Man Utd
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Thank you to the Barcelona fans telling me their club is living “rent free” inside my head. I presume lever 4 will trigger their ability to pay the rent.
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Andy Murray turned down a seven-figure sum to play an exhibition match in Saudi Arabia due to the country’s human rights record and will not entertain future offers, according to his rep. By
@martynziegler
via
@SportUnlocked
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The thing is, a lot of (not all) the things Ronaldo identified last season (facilities, poor decisions, things need destroying etc) are now being addressed by Murtough and Ten Hag. The problem for Ronaldo is he was one of the poor decisions but he doesn’t realise it.
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Not lost a match since being charged 115 times by the Premier League.
Guardiola's Man City are unbeaten in their last 23 games in all competitions!
Premier League 🔜
FA Cup final 🔜
UCL final 🔜
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Blows my mind that Marcus Rashford, who literally ensured children are being fed in some of the poorest parts of the north east, is wearing captain’s armband, leading players in taking the knee, and paying supporters are still booing his act.
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This remains, by an absolute mile, the most significant level of engagement and contribution by a straight ex-male footballer to addressing the sport’s issue with homophobia.
Graeme Souness on why there are no openly gay footballers in the Premier League
🗣"I came from a generation which was extremely homophobic. I went to the Brighton pride and learn't so much, it changed my attitude"
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Solskjaer would have been sacked three times by Watford during this half alone.
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Slightly worried “Aston Villa to break into the top 4” is the new “keep an eye on Turkey” at euro 2020
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United players, if you're gonna leave Ole Gunnar Solskjaer literally shedding tears in an interview, you probably need to show a little bit more than this once you've convinced everyone he was the problem
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UEFA, always spinning, blaming delays on “late arrival of fans”. Listen to the reporters, fans and eyewitnesses outside of the stadium. When you do that, it is clear fans did not arrive late, and the truth matters.
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July 11, Euros final. No restrictions. Gareth, no pressure like, but give us the party of a lifetime pls
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Young up and coming coach Erik Tan Hag is older than Mauricio Pochettino.
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Brighton low key heading for 3 wins in 16 Premier League games, btw.
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one of the most extraordinary and disturbing episodes I’ve seen on social media
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To those patronising
#mufc
fans, saying ‘this isn’t the way’, what would you like them to do? Failed by government when Glazers came in. They tried every form of polite protest. They set up a Phoenix club. The owners do not engage. What else is left but non-violent direct action?
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Lampard on Diary of a CEO by end of February latest imo.
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Manchester United: one of those teams you watch and wonder what on Earth they do in training all week.
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Poor old Jonny Evans must have thought he was just popping by to keep fit for a week in pre season and now he’s had to cope with Haaland home and away this season
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Shaming young people for doing a thing the government has told them they can do, after 18 months of them doing pretty much everything they were told to do to protect vulnerable and/or older people, isn’t the one twitter
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If we’re all gonna get worked up about Saudi cash distorting the landscape of football, maybe also some self awareness in England about a Champions League group stage team having its talent cherry picked by a PL relegation battler
Nottingham Forest are closing in on deal to sign Ibrahim Sangaré from PSV! It’s close on €36/37m package add-ons included, as per
@RikElfrink
🔴🌳
Agreement on the verge of being sealed while Hudson-Odoi and Vlachodimos are also joining the club.
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@TheAthleticFC
🚨Manchester United’s plan to bring back Mason Greenwood included listing football pundits, politicians & journalists and categorising if they would be hostile or supportive. Domestic violence charities were assumed “hostile”
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Absolutely zero idea why the bloke who tried to pay his own brother £75k to not come out and did an interview with the headline “My Gay Brother is an Outcast” is being invited on telly to represent LGBT people.
'Whatever the rules and regulations are of that country, adhere to them. Some of them might be good, some of them might be bad but respect the country'
Former England player, John Fashanu believes politics and football should remain separate
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I fear Luton may end this season with 15 points but still beat Man Utd 1-0 at Kenilworth Road
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Fair play to anyone getting actively worked up because a 22 year old Brazilian whose just had the transfer of his life did a fun trick instead of a boring pass during a game that most people otherwise find dull and borderline irrelevant. Admire your energy.
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I don’t really see why Man City’s dominance this season is a cause for major consternation. Their net spend this season is £30m and they lost their best ever striker in Aguero too. It’s far more a reflection of brilliant coaching and a great mentality from staff and players.
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Eddie now has a position on ethical issues?
Eddie Howe says he wouldn’t behave like Jurgen Klopp after his red card: “I’m very aware I’m going to be looked at by millions of people, especially children. You have an expectation to make sure the game is upheld in the right way”
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Predictable things happening now with Rashford. MPs and their twitter cheerleaders starting to undermine the footballer who, in their eyes, could never be an intellectual equal. They could just about tolerate it as a novelty but now he wants real change he must be patronised.
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What job did he think he was taking
Antonio Conte: "For me it's very difficult to talk about fourth place, because I am used to play for other targets."
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Don’t underestimate Liz Truss is the new don’t underestimate Turkey at Euro 2020
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Yessss Joe Cole: “This is a lesson to Tuchel: this isn’t the Bundesliga, this isn’t Ligue 1, this is the Premier League”
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🧵 Little thread on
#mufc
and Greenwood after today’s events, which may help people understand what happened. This is a bit industry-y but hopefully people appreciate the transparency
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Does that rule Bissouma out of the replay against Liverpool
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Leeds have had 87 shots in four games v Everton, Arsenal, Villa and Manchester City. Quite mad.
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“One of the great appeals of the Premier League is it’s not a one-team league,” says Martin Tyler, as one team prepares to win a fifth title in six years and a treble
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Interesting how the banter accounts have been sharing a lot of this stuff over last few days. Really tapping into the way casual homophobia among a new generation of young men has become memeable/captured fresh platforms
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Manchester United progressing very quickly in signing Casemiro,
@TheAthleticUK
understands. Initial €60m + further €10m. A four year contract, with option of a fifth year. Huge deal for Erik Ten Hag.
Story:
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There is something unsustainable for the credibility of the Premier League about cases like these coming around and being resolved far quicker than those impacting Man City. Process must supersede optics but it’s a damaging look
🚨 Everton + Nottingham Forest expecting to be informed on Monday that they’ve been found in breach of PL profitability & sustainability rules for 3yr cycle to June 2023. Both have prepared mitigation & will launch robust defences
@TheAthleticFC
#EFC
#NFFC
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Satire just died
BREAKING: Saudi Pro League chiefs are reluctant for their clubs to sign Mason Greenwood.
Bosses in the Middle East fear taking on the striker would be damaging to their league's public image.
- talkSPORT sources understand
🚨 More ☞
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Ok but calling a fire engine seems a bit OTT
BREAKING: Manchester United confirm Marcus Rashford is unavailable for a 'few games' with a muscle injury 🤕
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Newcastle United set to turn out in green & white of Saudi Arabia next season. New away kit bears striking resemblance to Saudi national-team jersey & will likely attract criticism. For club, shirt sales in Saudi certain to increase revenue
#nufc
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Thing about Arsenal is there’s barely been a game they’ve had where it can be argued they got more than they deserve. They’ve hands down been the best side in the league 🤷🏻♂️
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Note to everyone in public life: you can do a silly thing, say you did a silly thing and come out looking human and nice
"It was completely stupid" 🗣
Jurgen Klopp apologises to a translator after criticising his work on Monday 🤝
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NEW:
The full inside story on how Manchester United came to decide to bring back Mason Greenwood and then U-Turn on the decision in the space of 72 hours.
@TheAthleticFC
long read, featuring many fresh details.
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Fifa yesterday: we support a newly out gay male player
Fifa today: off we go to Saudi for the club World Cup
BREAKING: Saudi Arabia will host the Club World Cup in December.
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NEW:
🚨Manchester United today announce Mason Greenwood to continue career elsewhere, u-turning on plan communicated by ceo Richard Arnold to executive leadership on August 1. Follows reporting from
@TheAthleticFC
& backlash by fans, charities & MPs
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Finally found a decision he disagrees with
Peter Walton fires parting shot at bosses after being let go by TNT Sports
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Has the colour scheme of this video has been edited to avoid showing a rainbow armband?
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE
Newcastle chair Yasir Al Rumayyan faces $74m lawsuit for allegedly “having carried out instructions” of Saudi Crown Prince MBS, with “malicious intent” of “harming, silencing & ultimately destroying” family of Saudi ex-intelligence chief
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The McTominay thing is pure Fellaini. Evidently makes the team function in a worse way as a collective, hinders control of a match, turns over the ball too often, but individually will stand out with goals and application.
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Man United were not counter attacked on in a dangerous way once today, and that’s against a team who generally counter attack well. That’s the major change, from one training session 🤯and the biggest change from every other home game this season
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Surrounding the match official is allowed this week then
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Anyone at director level at Chelsea going to be speaking on the record or is the ownership really going to expect Thomas Tuchel to handle this one alone too?
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What are the qualifying factors to be the main man at a roast dinner
James Maddison: ‘When I go for a roast dinner with my family, I like to be the main man’
@RichJolly
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Every time you watch Manchester United you think it can't possibly be that bad the next time. And then it is.
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Remarkable to see how so many Chelsea supporters online appear to be demanding answers from the British government rather than the Chelsea board and owner
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Liverpool/Man City 15-1 Manchester United this season, over the four games. Beyond abysmal. This is, emphatically, the world and the culture created by Joel Glazer and Ed Woodward.
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Man City’s 115 alleged breaches mean the Premier League trapped in purgatory until proven or cleared. So how do we all handle a competition whose chief exec hands out medals to a club it alleges to be serial rule breakers? An exploration for
@TheAthleticFC
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Philosophical question for older people: how do you stop yourself becoming like this, constantly believing everything was harder, arguing your effort was greater?
Cristiano Ronaldo says this generation of players has it too easy 👀
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Manchester United went to Anfield, had the best chances and there wasn’t a showreel of De Gea saves. Really good performance and good result.
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Just no idea what anyone is worth anymore
Burnley have agreed £31.5m package deal for Ian Maatsen from Chelsea — fee includes add ons. There’s still no green light from player side 🚨🟣
Chelsea would also have sell on clause as part of the deal.
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The World Cup is such a great leveler. A Burnley flop causing anxiety for arguably the greatest player of all time.
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So Chelsea flew to Middlesbrough and did not have take the megabus after all. Almost as though the club has, at certain moments, intentionally dramatised its situation to secure greater concessions.
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I presume after signing Ronaldo and rocking up to Old Trafford for his debut, Woodward thought he would sail off into the sunset with glowing reviews. He didn’t deserve to. He is, among several, the foremost architect of the club’s failings since 2013.
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If you have to define Luke Shaw by one man, I’d suggest it’s better to do it based on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s brilliant positive impact on him than Mourinho’s negative impact.
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Today they feel gay
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Today one of those where TV in England makes very little sense. No 3pm blackout. But four hugely supported clubs: Leeds, Arsenal, Man United and Newcastle. And if you’re in England you can’t watch them play live unless you have a match ticket. But if you’re anywhere else you can.
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🚨Exclusive
Paris Saint-Germain drafted a legal letter to complain to Sporting Lisbon on Sunday after media reports emerged suggesting Chelsea might take a stake in the Portuguese club as part of a proposed transfer for Manuel Ugarte.
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Baffling enough the on field officials couldn’t call this, even more crazy the VAR didn’t
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Reminder Barcelona requested to UEFA to advance several years of CL TV money as security for bank loan - only to be reminded no guarantee Barca would qualify…now their fans sing “UEFA is a Mafia” after team flop out of group phase…
Background;
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Heartwarming to see Real Madrid head over heels in the competition they remain determined to destroy
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I know this is probably against VAR workings but just crazy they can watch that hairpulling takedown repeatedly and it culminates in Tottenham still having a corner to score a goal from
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Juan Mata is joining Japanese club Vissel Kobe. Turned down lucrative offer from Saudi Arabia and also UAE because he wants to experience living in Japan & a team in title contention.
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Manchester City’s players & coaching team deserve huge credit for extraordinary success. So too do their recruitment team. But if now is not the time to question the how behind it, then when is? A piece on how we are all supposed to make sense of this.
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Another 17 shots against Man Utd for Fulham today, to go with 22 for Luton, 23 for Villa, 22 for West Ham, 16 for Wolves, 17 for Newport, 16 for Tottenham. Simple stats that tell you the coach is not setting the team up well enough.
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Every time I look at a chelsea starting line up I’m just like they need to spend another £500m
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Renato Sanches reminds me of when Anderson was actually good at Man United for about 18 months
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How is Mainoo more composed than the ones with hundreds of appearances to their name?
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Now the Premier League is no longer in thrall to a £500m+ Chinese TV deal, wouldn’t it be nice if a few more players and particularly his own club got behind
@MesutOzil1088
talking about the persecution of Uighur Muslims, rather than avoidance and obfuscation
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When you consider how hard it is to get footballers to wade into certain issues, it really does underline how much they must really believe some of the messages they are posting today after the verdict of Mendy’s court case. Startling window into how they really think.
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The football industry really showing it’s true self this week eh.
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Will they also lodge a formal complaint with their own team’s inability to protect a 2-0 lead?
🚨 Nottingham Forest are planning to lodge a formal complaint with PGMOL following the performance of Stuart Attwell and his assistants against Manchester United. [
@JPercyTelegraph
]
#MUFC
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There’s gonna be a discussion about Ronaldo not playing because Man United can’t score, but that would ignore that Man United are playing about 10x better partially as a result of him not playing.
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Oldest I’ve ever felt reading about football news
Tom Cleverley will assume the position of Interim Head Coach at Vicarage Road.
This follows Watford FC terminating the contract of Valérien Ismaël after today's home defeat to Coventry City.
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Exclusive
@TheAthleticUK
:
🚨 Nike remain committed to their long-term kit deal with Chelsea FC.
🚨15-year, £900m kit deal with Chelsea FC signed in 2016.
🚨Sources close to Nike say intend to stand by partnership, reported to be worth £60m per yr.
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PIF owned Newcastle hoping to sell to PIF owned Al Ahli? Almost rate the brazenness if this happens I suppose
BREAKING: Newcastle are hoping to sell Allan Saint Maximin to Saudi Arabian side Al Ahli to fund their pursuit of Harvey Barnes.
Talks between Saint Maxinin's advisers and Al Ahli are at very early stages.
- talkSPORT sources understand.
📻 LISTEN:
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the best player in the Premier League’s dad is quote tweeting TrollFootball
😉 Well done Arsenal, great win. You must be favourites for the league now.
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Was told a story about Louis van Gaal recently. How, when at
#mufc
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Just the owner of Manchester City (bottom right pic) forming part of a welcoming party for despot Al-Assad, a major Putin ally, and helping to normalise the Syrian president’s return to diplomatic life.
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Hopefully nobody accused of links to piracy will ever bid to own a Premier League club, that would be very damaging to this very serious stance 🥹
The individuals behind three pirate streaming organisations, which offered illegal access to watch Premier League matches, have today been jailed for a total of 30 years and seven months
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